United National Movement

The United National Movement (ENM) was a liberal-conservative party in the Republic of Georgia that was founded in October 2001 by Mikheil Saakashvili. The party favored closer ties with NATO and the European Union, as well as the restoration of Georgian control over the separatist self-proclaimed states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The party was originally a center-left party, but it moved to the center-right after the Rose Revolution. The party combined political, economic, and cultural liberalism with nationalism, and it sought to improve social services to the poor (the movement's main base of support), fight corruption, and reduce administrative barriers for doing business. In 2017, the party resolved as the result of internal splits within the ENM.